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Shay, Maureen. "Uprooting genealogy in G.B. Tran’s Vietnamerica." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 52. (2016): 428–44. Added by: joachim (8/10/17, 12:29 PM) Last edited by: joachim (8/10/17, 12:38 PM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2016.1228269 BibTeX citation key: Shay2016 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Vietnamerica", Autobiography, Postcolonialism, Tran. GB, USA Creators: Shay Collection: Journal of Postcolonial Writing |
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G.B. Tran’s graphic memoir Vietnamerica: A Family’s Journey (2010) is a text marked by fragmentation: from its non-linear narrative to its cover image of many deconstructed faces held within the disconnected pieces of a dissolving puzzle, the memoir’s most compelling trope is of brokenness. Tran’s family is broken – compromised by occupation and colonialism, severed by a nation at war and fractured by the trauma of displacement as refugees from their home in Vietnam. This article asserts, however, that non-linearity, deconstruction and visual tropes of fracture are strategies towards envisioning the migrant memory as a generative space that promises constant reconnection to the world, rather than defining it as a space bereft of its roots.
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